Jonathan GB. Night Assignments


Assignment 1: Reasons for writing


The Suvivor
Elie Wiesel wrote the novel Night to tell the readers what happened in the concentration camps that jewish were held in. Wiesel wanted the readers to feel what the jewish felt when they were in the camps. Wiesel also wanted to share is experience that he had of his dad being beating to death. Wiesel wanted to show people the pain that these people were going through in the camps. He, wanted the readers to feel the pain that they were going through. Wiesel was only 15 when he went to the concentration camp. Elie had been through his mother, sister, and other family members dying in the gas chambers. He has seen young innocent children transformed into smoke in the silent sky.





Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search



Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/


Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?

List three things the Nazis did to ensure
that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm

  1. Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933
  2. Disobedience brought with it severe punishments
  3. You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear and if you believed what they said, there power would be small.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?

What was the Final Solution?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477

Kristallnacht is a riot agains jews.
Kristallnacht meants “night of broken glass”
November 9-10, 1938


Reinhard Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Eichmann
The “Final solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews

The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457

CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”



Jehovahs wittnesses
Roma
People with disabilities
Poles
Soviet prisoners of war
Afro-Germans
Homosexuals

The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059

What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445

Warsaw Ghetto - poland
Jewish Council
To place jews separate from the world.

**Lodz**, **Krakow**, **Bialystok**, **Lvov**, **Lublin**, **Vilna**, **Kovno**,

Life in the ghettos were terrible. Children eating on the side of the streets.

The Camps
There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144

What were the conditions?

What different types of extermination were performed?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145

Labor camps is were they made you do work all day.
Death/Extermination camps is where they killed you anyway possible.

Gas chambers, being beating to death.

The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials
Who liberated the camps?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131

What did Hitler do near the end of the war?

How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142

United States

Killed himself.

24. Nazis


As reflected in the range of criminal charges brought before these courts


Assignment 3: Images of Night

Ghetto

Ghetto
Trapped and restricted
Cramped, Hungry, Thirsty
Lots of people in a small space like peole in an elevator
A prison without bars
Holding
In countries of Nazis